How did ASCII assign letters a specific number? How did that system came to be? How did early computers adapt to it?

Question

For example: how was the letter A given the binary code of “01000001”? (I really don’t know anything about this but I’m interested)

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Answer 1

Surprisingly there is a Wikipedia page called … wait for it … [*ASCII*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII)!